Friendly Gift

OMG look at the adorable little bubble gum machine that a friend of mine made me! I just adore it! She did such a wonderful job, I just had to share it here and show you all. Thank you girl, I love it!

One of my favorite poets & poems...

I absolutely love Robinson Jeffers. His poems are so amazing. He was or seems like he was such a man who was so fine tuned into the world and what was important in life. He seemed to appreciate the logic in things no matter how grand or small it was. He has many many poems, most all of which can be found by going to this website:
http://www.poemhunter.com/robinson-jeffers/poems/page-1/?a=a&l=1&y=

This is one of my favorites...


Inscription For A Gravestone

I am not dead, I have only become inhuman:
That is to say,
Undressed myself of laughable prides and infirmities,
But not as a man
Undresses to creep into bed, but like an athlete
Stripping for the race.
The delicate ravel of nerves that made me a measurer
Of certain fictions
Called good and evil; that made me contract with pain
And expand with pleasure;
Fussily adjusted like a little electroscope:
That's gone, it is true;
(I never miss it; if the universe does,
How easily replaced!)
But all the rest is heightened, widened, set free.
I admired the beauty
While I was human, now I am part of the beauty.
I wander in the air,
Being mostly gas and water, and flow in the ocean;
Touch you and Asia
At the same moment; have a hand in the sunrises
And the glow of this grass.
I left the light precipitate of ashes to earth
For a love-token.

-Robinson Jeffers

It's All About You Forum

Ugh, Not So Great Greatness Right Now...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

I hope your day was filled with many blessings, togetherness and love...and good food! We had a wonderful dinner today with family and friends and really just left a warm feeling in my heart. Especially, remembering all the memories I personally have from when I was a little girl growing up and seeing my babies make their memories..what a gift from God that is to be able to experience something like that. It's a complete life changer. Anyway, although today was a great day I am not feeling that great right now. The kids have been sick for almost a week now. My son got it first and now my daughter has it. Of course now mommy has to get it to and I am just feeling like I've been run over by a train to say the least. Which is really the main reason behind this post. I just wanted to stop in and apologize for the lack of posts lately because between getting ready for the holidays, Christmas shopping, taking care of some other family matters and dealing with sick kids, it's not been the time for me to sit down and really compose a decent blog post. I hope you all understand. However, now that we have Thanksgiving out of the way and I have finally got alot of the things taken care of that needed done around here *not everything yet, but that will come in time*, I am thinking that I might be making my return back to youtube sooner than the first of the year like I initially said. I am not making any promises but I might be able to come back as soon as a week or two. I am pushing for around the beginning of December so that my first video can be my November favorites. I think that would be a good video to come back on. I have been thinking alot about my channel and how I want it to go now and really looking within myself to deal with alot of issues that did come up in the past with my channel and I feel confident that I have most of those issues taken care of now so like I said, not making any promises because I would hate for something to happen and me not be able to return on a specific date and then I would feel horrible for breaking a promise to you all, but I really am pushing for the next week or so...SOOOO...fingers crossed!

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday and a safe blessed weekend and I will hopefully see you soon!

Late Night Organizing & Rearranging

Today was a very exhausting day. Not to mention very stressful for me. Sooo needless to say, how do I deal with stress? No, I don't go out to have a drink. No, I don't go shopping *well, maybe not this time :)*. No, I don't go out and party. I am weird. I am unusual..lol To relieve my stress I rearrange furniture and organize. So after dinner tonight I decided that I was going to rearrange certain areas of my bedroom and organize some things. I originally planned to do this soon anyway because I needed to make adjustments and take care of some lighting issues when it came to filming videos when I come back next year and start making videos again. I needed to put my makeup area  near my window so that I could use the natural light to film tutorials with instead of the lamps that I had been using. I was so tired of the colors being off and everything just not looking the same in the video as it did when I would take pictures of the look. I'm hoping that now I have the problem taken care of.

I still have some other things to take care of concerning my videos before I do come back. Like I said already, I really want to not only take this time to get everything in my personal life taken care, focus on more family time, but also use this time to fine tune so to speak how I do my videos when I come back. I am still learning when it comes to making videos and although my videos won't be as grand as alot of youtubers, I know for a fact that they can be better than the ones I was putting out before. I have a whole list of things I want to do to hopefully better my videos and make them more enjoyable and more informational for you guys.

Anyway, it's been a very long tiring day and I'm ready for dreamland but below are some pictures of my new areas that I rearranged tonight. Have a very blessed weekend everyone!

I just had to take a pic of this little table. I love it! 

So cutsie poopsie!

 This is now my new makeup area. The window is pretty big so I should have some really good natural lighting for my tutorials. After watching pinksofoxy's organization videos, I went through all of my stuff and got rid of alot of makeup especially. I used to have about four drawers of just makeup items and now I have only the top drawer in this dresser and what yous see on top. I am very proud of myself! 

 I had so much crap hanging on the back of my door. I still do have alot of stuff on it but now I just have my most reached for purses and my favorite fall/winter pink fuzzy hat...be jealous..you know it's fab! lol 

 This wall used to have the big dresser on it, the one I'm not using for my makeup area that I put infront of the window. I like it so much better this way because it frees up alot of walking room around our computer which we didn't have before and let's face it, in a small place like ours free space is good space..lol

This is the top of our printer. I just snapped this random pic, not sure why but thought I would throw it in. It's pretty cute. 

This used to be the place where I did my makeup. However the lighting just wasn't cutting it and despite the fact that I adore this vanity more than using a silly old dresser as a vanity, I couldn't move this one infront of the window because the big mirror on the back would have completely blocked out the window all together. Therefore, I had to just put some pretty stuff on the top of this one and use the silly old dresser..lol 

Nitie Nite! 

11-7-12 FOTD

Wet n wild Brulee for the lid and highlight.

Crease I used a light hand with a fluffy blending brush and dusted Jordana eyeshadow in Desert Spice.

Mascara is Prestige My Blackest Lashes.

Eyeliner is Urban Decay 24/7 Zero for waterline and NYC liquid liner for top lid.

Blush/bronzer is the duo from elf.

Highlight for cheeks is Sephora Golden.

Lipsticks are Wet n Wild matte #918D then I put Wet n Wild 99 cent lipstick in 514A over it to make it a more red color.

Foundation is Maybelline dream matte mousse with Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder.

Concealer is Maybelline Instant Age Rewind the dark circles one in fair.